Life begins today for green dragon

They’ve got their money out of him but the St George Dragon gets a 40th birthday cake today.

He's apparently had to do his thing through almost 500 commercials since he was part of the Captain Cook bicentenary celebrations in 1970, most of them ads involving
Julie Anthony
.

More than $15 million has been raised for the St George Foundation from staff and customers.

There were 64 children’s charities assisted last year by the foundation alone.

Helping him to cut the cake – which we think he may need – will be old mate Julie.

Others fronting up at St George House in Kogarah will be St George chief executive
Greg Bartlett
, NSW member for Kogarah
Cherie Burton
, chairman of the foundation and former bank chief executive
Fred Shield
, and
Danny Robinson, governor of the St George Foundation, director of the St George Illawarra Football Club as well as the St George Hospital Medical Research Foundation.